ajcascardi@berkeley.edu

 Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities

Sidney and Margaret Ancker Chair in Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish

 


EDUCATION

Ph.D.,  Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, with distinction, 1980

M.A.,  Harvard University, Romance Languages and Literatures, 1977

B.A.,  Princeton University, summa cum laude, 1975 


TEACHING APPOINTMENTS

Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, (1991-present); Goldman Chair, 1998-2004; Ancker Chair, 2004-

Visiting Professor, Primorska University (Koper, Slovenia), Cultural Studies (ongoing)

Associate Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley (1986-1991)

Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley (1980-1986).

 

ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS AND SELECTED PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES

Director, Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2006-

Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities, UC Berkeley, 2005-06

Director, Consortium for the Arts, UC Berkeley, 2004-06

Director, Art Research Center, UC Berkeley, 2004-06

Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, 1998-2002

Director, Berkeley Summer Research Seminars, 1996-2000

Chair, Department of Rhetoric, U.C. Berkeley, 1993-1998

II Vice-President, International Association for Aesthetics, 2004-07

Delegate-at-Large, International Association for Aesthetics, 2007-

Elected Representative, Divisional Council of the Academic Senate, UC Berkeley, 2004-05

Space Allocations and Capital Improvements Committee, U.C. Berkeley, 1996-7

Arts and Humanities Area Council, U.C. Berkeley, 1993-2002

Executive Committee, College of Letters and Science, U.C. Berkeley, 1990-1993

Convener, Faculty Working Group in Philosophy and Literature, U.C. Berkeley, 1987-1990

President's Humanities Initiative Fellowships Committee, Office of the President, U.C.

Vice-Chairman and Head Graduate Advisor in Comparative Literature, UCB, (1986-88)

Chair, Graduate Program Committee in Comp. Lit. (program revision), 1986-87

Undergraduate Advisor in Comp. Lit., UC Berkeley (1982-85)

 

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Berkeley Art Museum Board of Trustees, 2004-

Cal Performances Board of Trustees, 2005-2007

Berkeley Art Museum Faculty Advisory Board, 2004-

CITRIS Advisory Board, 2005-07

 

 

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

Margaret and Sidney Ancker Chair, UC Berkeley, 2004-

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, UC Berkeley, 1998-2002

ArtsBridge Grant (Principal Investigator), 2004-05

Fulbright Fellowship, 2004

Visiting Scholar, University of Copenhagen/EAP, Spring, 2002

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (Publication Grant, 1996)

NEH Summer Institute on Ethics and Aesthetics (Co-Director, 1993)

Faculty Fellow, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, U.C. Berkeley (1991-92)

Gaspar de Portola Visiting Lecturer, University of Barcelona (December, 1991)

Fellow, American Cultures Institute, U.C. Berkeley (Summer, 1991)

Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities (Research Grant, 1991)

Council on Educational Development (C.E.D.) grant, U.C. Berkeley (1989-90)

U.S. Delegate, XIth International Congress of Aesthetics

Choice prize ("Outstanding Academic Book") for Literature and the Question of Philosophy

Andrew Mellon Foundation Publication Award for The Bounds of Reason (1986)

Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (UTE) Grant, U.C. Berkeley (Fall, 1984)

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh (Spring, 1984)

Faculty Career Development Award, University of California, Berkeley (1984)

Faculty Visitor, Magdalen College, Oxford University (Spring, 1984)

Junior Faculty Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (1983)

Fellow, Columbia University Society of Fellows in the Humanities, (1982, declined)

Harvard University Traveling Fellowship (1978)

Latin American Studies Thesis Prize, Princeton University (1975)

Romance Languages Thesis Prize, Princeton University (1975)

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND APPOINTMENTS

General Editor, Penn State Studies in Philosophy and Literature, 1990-

Core Faculty Member, Arts Research Center (O.R.U.), U.C. Berkeley

Co-Director, “Art and Aesthetics After Adorno” Conference, UC Berkeley, 2001

Co-Editor, Cambridge University Press series "Literature, Culture, Theory" (1998-2000)

Conference Director, "Passions, Persons, Powers," UC Berkeley, May, 1993

Woodrow Wilson Foundation Mellon Fellowships, Representative, 1982-1988

Editorial Advisory Board, PMLA, 2000-

Conference Director, Philosophy and Literature Conference (Berkeley, 1992)

Editorial Boards: Philosophy and Literature (Johns Hopkins U. Press); Ciberletras; Literatura Española Comparada / Spanish Comparative Literature; Subject Matters:  A Journal of Communications and the Self 

Executive Committee, Cervantes Society of America (former)

Executive Committee, International Association of Philosophy and Literature (former)  




Professional Review Committees

UCLA, Department of English; Smith College, Department of Spanish; University of Denver, Department of English; University of Wisconsin (Madison), Department of Spanish; Williams College, Department of Romance Languages; SUNY Stony Brook, Department of Spanish; University of California, Riverside, Dept. of Spanish; University of Virginia, Department of English

 

 

Consultant/Reviewer for:

Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, University of California Press, University Press of New England, University of Chicago Press, SUNY Press, The Newberry Library Selection Committee, Penn State Press, Cambridge University Press, Kluwer Publishing Group (Amsterdam), PMLA, University of Minnesota Press, Yale University Press, Hispanic Rview, “The History Channel”